If you can wait a few weeks and if you are wanting to upgrade to CS5, you can pre-order now, via NewEgg and save a few bucks over Adobe's retail prices. Actually, all of their prices are slightly discounted.
You'll notice that, if you are upgrading from 2 versions back (CS3), it'll cost you an additional $200 (list prices) than if you were upgrading from just 1 version back (CS4). If you skip CS5 upgrade and wait for CS6, you will have potentially saved $400, if the pricing structure remains the same, 18 months from now.
Again, I don't see the value proposition in Adobe's current upgrade pricing structure, which means that I'm going to skip CS5. I'd rather save $400 and have HTML5 with CSS3 fully supported. If they had kept the same upgrade pricing from the last cycle, there would not have been this $400 differential (in fact, there would be no price difference between skipping a generation and not), which seems like a bogus (or idiotic) way for Adobe to go, if you ask me.
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